Device for feeding lacing-hooks and the like.



w. P. FRASER. DEVICE FOR FEEDING LACING HOOKS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 11, 1908.

90 1 ,434. Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

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W. F. FRASER. DEVICE FOR FEEDING LAGING HOOKS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION PILED JAN. 11, 1908.

Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

' character described 7 Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a hel' of the frame of a lacing hook setting machine,

- UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE. WARREN F. FRASER, OF DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR TO FRASER MACHINE &

MANUFACTURING CO., A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS. DEVICE FOR FEEDING LACING-HOOKS AND THE LIKE.

N 0. 901,434. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 11, 1908. Serial N 0. 410,408.

hook from the racew y toward the lacing ook carrier. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of t e plun er. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the tubu ar guideway, with a portion of the raceway attached thereto. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional Patented Oct. 20, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN F. FRASER, a subject of King Edward VII, residing at Dorchester, in the county of Suffolk and State of l assachusetts, have invented new and useful Hooks and the Like, of which the followingis a specification.

lllS invention relates to a device for feedtubular guideway and plunger Fig. 7 1s a 111g lacing hooks or the like, the object of the transverse sectional elevation taken on line invention being to provide a simple and reh- 7*? 0 1g. 1, loo ring toward the right in for feeding lacing lacing hooks on a raceway to a carrier, said carrier holding the lacing in position while the same is being riveted in the u per of a boot or shoe.

The object o the invention is further to provide a device in which the mechanism is said figure and showing a lacing hook in position within the helical groove of the tubular guideway.

Like numerals refer to like out the several views of the rom a column of the raceway 15 to a vertical position upon the lacing hook carrier 16. tu ular guideway 11 has a collar 17 fast thereto and fiattenedolf at one side, and to this collar are fastened the several portions of the raceway, including the guide-piece 18, the cap-piece 19 and the footpiece 20.

An anvil 21 is located above the carrier 16 and in alinenient with the shank of the lacing hook when the same is laced thereon in readiness to be riveted in the upper of a boot or shoe. e groove 14 has its opposite edges formed to project into the s ace between the head and flange of a lacing hook 22 in said groove upon opposite sides, respecconsists in a device of the tively, of the neck of said in the following specifica- 'l tlon and particularly as pointed out in the claims thereof. ill

carrier and p ace the same on vertical position, tical any of the lacing hooks in the column of lacraceway from moving ownwardly while said lacing hook is being he raceway to the carrier and while the moving piece is returning in readiness to feed another lacing hook from the raceway to he carrier.

The invention side el its f latera ly curved ortion of the hooks attached thereto together lacing hook whil d pushing the hook carrier and anvil, the device being same from the foot of the raceway onto the shown with the parts in the ositions ascarrier. finger 23 projects from a sumed thereby when the lacing ook has just lunger 24 which been fed onto the carrier. Fig. 2 is a view l similar to Fig. 1, showing the arts in the y when the neck of the stands up wardly helical groove from the foot of said raceway onto saidcarrier.

2. A device for feeding lacing hooks or the like comprising a vertical raceway, a carrier adapted-to receive a lacing hook, a guideway extending from the foot of said raceway to lacing hook on the raceway, as seen in Fig. 1,

thus preventing said lowermost lacing 'hoo r from descending into the'groove 14 untilthe lunger has moved backwardly and its for ward end is at the rightof the lowermost lacing hook in the raceway (Fig. 2).

A :reciprocatory movement is imparted to the plunger 24 by a lever 25 to which a rocking movement is imparted by suitable mech' anism, not shown in the drawings. Said lever 25 is forked'to receive two lateral ,pins 26, which project thereinto, these lateralpins being rigidly fastened to or integral with a collar 27 in which collar'the plunger 24 is free "to rotate. A nut 28 holds the collar upon the plunger 24 and against a shoulder 29 formed upon the plunger 24, but it will be understood'that said nu't does not clamp thecollar 27 against the shoulder 29, but simply holds said collar upon the plunger and free for said plunger to rotate within said collar as the same is being moved forwardly and backwardly by the lever 25.

The general operation of the device hereinbefore specifically described 'is as follows: said carrier.

The lacing hooks are fed down "the raceway, 4. A device for feeding lacing hooksor the whichis preferably'vertical, from a hopper or like comprising a raceway, a carrier adapte any other suitable separating device until to receive a lacing hook, a tubular guideway they stand in column upon said raceway, extending from the foot of said raceway to- '3 with the lowermost lacing hook resting ward said carrier, said guideway provi e against the helical guide-finger 23. Said with a'helical groove adapted to guide a lacguide-fingeris moved backwardly to the 'poing'hook, a plunger withinsaid tubular guidesition shown in Fig. 2, whereupon the lowerway, a finger projecting from said plunger most lacing hook in the raceway drops into into said groove adapted to engage a lacing 5 the groove 14 and the plunger 24 is then moved'forwardly or towardthe left fromthe position illustrated in Fig. 2 to that illustrated in Fig. 1, carrying with it, by reason of the finger 23 pushing against the neck of 40 said lacing hook, the lacing hook 22 from a horizontal to a vertical position and pushing the same onto the carrier 16. The carrier then ascends and drives the shank of the -lacing hook through the upper of the boot or shoe 5 and clenches the same therein in a manner well known to those s lled in the art. During this clenching operation the plunger is moved toward the right from the position illustrated in Fig. 1 ito'that illustratedinFig. 2, and thus'allows a'lacing hook, 22, to drop from the column of lacing hooks into the groove 14, and said lacing hook is thenfed onto said carrier.

helical groove adapted to guide a lacing hook and rock the same from a horizontal to a vertical position, and means tomove a lacing hook along said helical groove from the foot of said raceway onto said carrier.

3. A device for feeding lacing hooks'or the like comprising a raceway, a carrier adapted ing from the'foot of said raceway toward said groove adapted to guide a lacing hook, afinger projecting into said helical groove adaptsaid raceway, and means to move saidiinger longitudinally of said .groove, whereby said lacing hook may be moveda'long'said helical to impart a'reciprocatory movement to said plunger.

5. A devicefor'feedinglacing hooks or the like comprisinga raceway, a carrier adapte extending from the foot of said raceway toward said carrier, said guideway provide with a helical groove adapted toguidea'lacing hook, a plunger within said tubular guideway, a helical shaped finger projecting from said plunger into said groove adapted to engage said lacing hook at thefoot'of said raceway, and means to impart a reciprocatory movement to said plunger, whereby said lacing hook maybe moved along said helical groovefrom the foot of said raceway onto the carrier, as hereinbefore described, 6. A device for feeding lacing hooks or the preparatory to being set in the leather of the like comprising'araceway, a carrier adapted uppfr. to receive a lacing hook, a tubular-guideway aving thus describedmy'invention, what extending from the foot of said raceway to- I claim and desire by Letters Patent to seward said carrier, said guideway PIOVHlGC cureis: with a helical groove adapted to guide a'lac- 1. A device forfeeding lacing hooks or the ing hook, a plunger within said tubular like comprising a racewa aicarrier adapte guideway, a helical shaped finger projecting -to receive a lacmghook, a guideway extendfrom said plunger into said groove adapteo .ingfromthefoot of said raceway'toward said to engage said lacing hook at thefoot-of sai carrier,said guidewayprovidedwithahelical raceway, and means to impart a 'reciproca groove adapted to guide a lacing hook, and tory movement to said plunger, whereb means to move the lacing hook along said said lacing hook may be moved along Sal said carrier, said guideway provided with a to receive a lacmghook, a guideway'eXten carrier, said guideway provided with ahelical' ed to engage said lacing hook at the foot'of 4 roove from the foot of said raceway onto hook at the foot of said raceway, andimeans to receive a lacing hook, a tubular guideway e, a tubular guideway provided with a helical groove adapte to guide a lacing hook, a plunger within said tubular guideway, a helical shaped finger projecting from sai p unger into said groove adapted to enhelical groove from the foot of said raceway onto said carrier, said finger being of suihendof said finger said carrier.

A device for feeding lacing hooks or the gage and formed at its ee end to enter the like, comprising a raceway, a carrier adapted laterally curved portion of a lacing hook 1n 0 receive a lacing hook, a tubu ar guideway said groove, and means to impart a reclproextending from the foot of said raceway tocatory movement to said plunger.

ward sai carrier, said guideway provided In a device for fee -ing lacing hooks or with a e ical groove ada )ted to guide a lacl the like a tubular guideway provided with a ing hook, a lunger within said tubular l helical groove, the edges of said groove being guldeway, a finger projecting from said lunl ger into said groove, a collar in which said 1 the p unger is adapted to rock, and a lever con- J g hereby said I be reciprocated and rocked si- 1 adapted to (pro ect into the space between ange of a lacing hoo 8. n a device for feeding lacing hooks or like, a tubular guideway rovided with a helical groove adapted to gui e a lacing book, a plunger within said tubular guideway, a v .ger projecting from said plunger into said WARREN F. FRASER. groove adapted to engage a lacing hook in Witnesses:

said groove, and means to impart a reciprol CHARLES S. GOODING,

catory movement to said plunger. LoUIs A. JONES.

of said guideway.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and in presence of two subscribing witnesses. 

